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Rhinestone Cowboy singer Glen Campbell has died at the age of 81 after "a long and courageous battle" with Alzheimer's disease, his family said.
"It is with the heaviest of hearts that we announce the passing of our beloved husband, father, grandfather," their statement said.
The legendary guitarist announced his Alzheimer's diagnosis in 2011.
A self-taught prodigy, he rose from a poor rural childhood to release over 70 albums and sell 45 million records.
Born in 1936 Glenn Campbell he was a man always in the pop world, touring with the Beach Boys in the 1960s and even playing on their albums. He had big hits in the 60s with "Witicha Linesman" and "Galveston". The 70s were just as a s good as he starred in the CNBS weekly show "The Glenn Campbell Goodtime Hour" and astarred in the film "Norwood", and had an album of the same name, and appeared on hundreds of variety TV programmmes including t…

UPDATE Errol Brown died in May 2015 in Barbados at the age of only 71from liver cancer and was originally from Jamaica. He was also an MBE.
He may have taken the Seventies music world by storm, but Brown was an accidental musician and only got caught up in hitmaker Mickie Most’s pop production line through a friend, Hot Chocolate co-founder Tony Wilson.
“Tony had been a songwriter for 10 years, but I used to get these melodies coming into my head,” he says. “I never grew up wanting to be a pop star, I never grew up interested in performing music at all.”
A statement from Brown's manager .
"Errol Brown MBE passed away in The Bahamas this morning with his wife Ginette and daughters Colette and Leonie by his side of liver cancer," he said.
"Errol was a lover of life and obviously 'music!' I never went into his home, car or a hotel room without music playing.
"Errol was a 'Gentle Man' and was a personal friend of mine who will be sadly missed by eve…

Born in 1942 in London as Bernard William Jewrey and in the 1960s had a stage name of Shane Fenton, as the lead singer of the group called Shane Fenton died just before a BBC pop programme. So Alvin ,who was also a group member took on the name to keep the TV show going ahead.
It was in the 70s music that Alvin Stardust became a glam rock star, but although his first hit "My Coo Ca Choo".

The record was a hit in the charts and Alvin had to go on Top of the Pops to sing the song, but he was aware he did not really have an image. The night before recoding he needed to dye his hair, but over did it so much, that his hair was so black, that the dye kept running down his face. So he put on side burns to hide the mess. The next problem was that his hands were so black from the dye and would not wash off in time.